liberal

Definitions

• (now) Pertaining to those arts and sciences the study of which is considered to provide general knowledge, as opposed to vocational (vocational)/occupational (occupational), technical (technical) or mechanical (mechanical) training.
• Generous; willing to give unsparingly.
• Ample, abundant; generous in quantity.
• (obsolete) Unrestrained, licentious.
• Widely open to new ideas, willing to depart from established opinions or conventions; permissive.
• (politics) Open to political or social changes and reforms associated with either classical or modern liberalism.